Rebekah Riess - News Desk Reporter, CNN
Rebekah Riess
News Desk Reporter, CNN
Rebekah Riess is a news desk reporter with CNN’s National News Hub, responsible for newsgathering and writing stories on a variety of topics within the United States.
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After catastrophic floods, Texas enacts sweeping camp safety laws to protect kidsSep 5, 2025Texas lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 1 to address safety standards at youth camps. Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the bill into law in a ceremony at the governor’s mansion on Friday. Senate Bill 1 is also known as the “Heaven’s 27 Camp Safety Act,” in commemoration of the campers who lost their lives in the tragedy. -
Judge allows cutting-edge DNA technology in case against suspected Gilgo Beach serial killerSep 3, 2025Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a Suffolk County judge ruled Wednesday. -
More than a dozen universities have been targeted by false active shooter reports. It may take a while to find these swattersSep 1, 2025Over the past 10 days, more than a dozen college campuses have been the target of the dangerous criminal hoax known as swatting, with law enforcement lured to a location in response to a false report of a horrific crime. -
After being hidden away from public view, the gun used to kill Emmett Till is now on displayAug 31, 2025The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. -
• Live Updates Live UpdatesLive Updates August 28, 2025 - Minneapolis church shootingAug 29, 2025Investigators are reviewing writings left by the shooter who fired through the windows of a church in Minneapolis, killing two children. -
State Department pauses issuing work visas for commercial truck driversAug 26, 2025The US State Department is pausing the issuing of work visas for foreigners looking to become commercial truck drivers in the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday. -
Columbia University student from China among those killed in the NY bus crash. Here’s what we knowAug 24, 2025After spending the morning taking in the breathtaking sights at Niagara Falls, a group of tourists boarded a bus to return to New York City, not knowing about an hour later, their bus would be lying on its side in the ditch off the New York State Thruway. -
Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in Atlantic historyAug 18, 2025Hurricane Erin has undergone a period of astonishingly rapid intensification — a phenomenon that has become far more common in recent years as the planet warms. It was a rare Category 5 on Saturday before weakening, as it churns through the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean. -
Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in Atlantic historyAug 17, 2025Powerful Hurricane Erin has undergone a period of astonishingly rapid intensification — a phenomenon that has become far more common in recent years as the planet warms. It was a rare Category 5 for a time Saturday before becoming a Category 4, churning through the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean. -
A man running from an immigration raid died after an SUV hit him on a Los Angeles freeway, officials sayAug 16, 2025A man who fled as an immigration raid unfolded at a Home Depot in Southern California was killed when he ran onto a freeway as federal agents moved in, local officials said. -
Some parents miss drop-off in Los Angeles as immigration fears dampen excitement of first day of schoolAug 14, 2025More than 500,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District began a new school year Thursday with concerns and fear amid the ongoing immigration raids. -
An ex-NFL player has been convicted in a dogfighting case. A record number of dogs were taken from himAug 5, 2025A former NFL player has been convicted for running an operation that bred and trafficked “grand champion” dogs and their offspring for dogfighting, the Department of Justice said. -
The manhunt in an Arkansas couple’s killing ended at a barbershop near the suspect’s homeAug 1, 2025The intense search for a man accused of a grisly double murder in northwest Arkansas over the weekend ended Wednesday when the suspect stopped for a haircut. -
Hearing on deadly Texas floods reveals local officials missed emergency planning briefingAug 1, 2025All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, were absent from an emergency briefing call ahead of the flash flooding incident, questioning from state lawmakers on Thursday revealed. -
An NYPD officer, security guard, Blackstone exec and Cornell grad were killed in the Manhattan shooting. Here’s what we knowJul 30, 2025A New York police officer, a “beloved” security guard, a young Cornell graduate and a senior executive with investment firm Blackstone were killed Monday when a lone gunman stormed a sprawling office tower in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire. -
Alabama toddler dies in hot car while in state custodyJul 26, 2025The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”
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Rebekah Riess is a news desk reporter with CNN’s National News Hub, responsible for newsgathering and writing stories on a variety of topics within the United States. Before coming to CNN in 2019, Rebekah was an assignment editor in Dallas and at Germany’s ZDF.
